While in the midst of their Get Out and Vote tour, the Beastie Boys have confirmed that they are indeed working on a new album.

"We're actually in the middle of recording it right now," group member Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz told Billboard.com "We hope to have it out sometime next year. It's a lot of vocals, a lot of words -- very wordy. And it's political, depending on what you call political. You know, if toilet talk and fart jokes are political, which they can be, in that sense yeah, very."

The politically active rap/rock trio has 6 shows left of their Get Out and Vote tour, aimed at encouraging voter participation in key swing states like Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Virginia.

Details regarding the upcoming album name and release date have yet to be released.